Bladder Cancer

Julio A. Aguirre-Ghiso, PhD, Professor of Medicine, Hematology, and Medical Oncology at the Tisch Cancer Institute Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, is leading a study on dormant cancer cells and their connection to relapse in patients. The research involves implanting a device with a diameter of 1mm...

Bladder Cancer

Immunotherapy with newly developed “immune checkpoint inhibitors” has led to striking advances in treatment for aggressive malignancies such as melanoma, non-small cell lung cancer, and renal cell carcinoma. These novel therapeutics work by blocking the PD-1/PD-L1 pathway, which in turn helps reveal...